To ask what your maternity package was/is?

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I work for a fairly large firm (250+ people) and it's very 'male' heavy with a lot of engineers. One of the directives for this year is for the company to employee more women in engineering roles.

This is great, but it bothers me that the maternity package is shite (6 weeks at 90% then straight onto SMP). We have a forum where we can ask questions anonymously, but as we're so short of women (especially ones of child bearing age) it might be obvious that this question has come from me or someone in my (female heavy) dept.

So can I ask what your package was/is? And whether I should raise this as a concern for a company actively trying to recruit young (graduate) female engineers?

I'm a teacher. I get 4 weeks full, 2 weeks 90%, 20 weeks on 30% plus smp then smp then 13 weeks on smp only. There is then 13 weeks that you can take but isn't paid. Not amazing but it'll do!

I work for large bank and got 14weeks full pay then down to amp

I work for a small company and I have to ask what the package will be. Anyone got any tips for broaching the subject without making the bosses think I'm either already preg or rushing home to immediately get preg??!

I'm a teacher too but we get 13 weeks full pay, 26 weeks smp and then a further 13 with no pay.

Work for a university.
4.5 months full pay
Then SMP

They have a great benefits package that makes my commute worth it.

I worked previously for an ad agency, who paid 3 months full then statutory, with a 'returners bonus' equivalent to 3 months on full pay - that you had to pay back if you then left within a year. So basically 6 months full pay then SMP, but with half held back to ensure you go back to, and stay back at, work.

I left much sooner than the full year in the end, as they made life pretty gruesome for me when I returned to work. I kept the cash.

6 months full, 6 months half. Investment bank so large company.

You can try raising it as an issue, but they'll probably think you can go elsewhere if you're not happy (unfair as that may be). Did you knew the terms when you took the role?

Full pay 18 weeks, half pay 6 weeks then SMP. Global company, employing circa 89000 people.

Had I joined pre 2008 I would get six months full then SMP, if I joined now I wouldn't get what I am getting now..

Firm of solicitors. On the larger side.

My maternity package was almost 9 years ago, but I got 6 months full pay, 3 months 50% then statutory

I work for a large oil and gas company, it's something along the lines of 6 months full, 3 months half then SMP.

6 weeks at 90% then SMP, but 2 months before I went on maternity leave, we were all given a 12 month relocation allowance, as we had moved offices so even on maternity I was still receiving it at £300 a month (net).

Medium sized charity, 3 months full pay, 3 months SMP.

Those who are saying "6 weeks at 90% pay then smp" do you realise that IS smp??

SMP is 90% average weekly earnings for 6 weeks then 33 weeks at a lower rate (dependent on salary but for most about £138/week)

Mine is the same as yours

This is going back to 2002 but when I had ds maternity leave was 10 months. At the time I worked for a large FTSE 100 company.

I got 6 weeks on full pay and then something like 18 weeks on half pay. Then I got a going back to work bonus which I think was 6 weeks' pay and as long as I stayed for a year after I went back I got to keep it. I got a car allowance too which continued throughout.

Huge financial services firm - 8 weeks full pay, 18 weeks at 25% + SMP, 3 months SMP. We also get a bonus of 12% of our salary in childcare vouchers for the first year after returning to work.

Not great for the industry, but not the worst. I was lucky in that I had a bonus baby - got my annual bonus in my calculation, so actually I had 6 weeks at 90%, which was way higher than my normal salary, then two weeks at 100%.

Statutory minimum here at an SME engineering company. DH does a similar job to me in a multinational and we would be somewhere over 5k better off before tax if our employers were the other way round. Not sure how it computes after tax though

Teacher in Scotland.

Full pay 3 months then 6 months SMP.

I'm also a teacher and I get the stat minimum; 6 weeks 90% followed by 33 smp. I'm not at an academy, it's an LA controlled school. I can't believe the number of people who spout off to me about how great public sector mat pay is, from my experience when compared to friends in the private sector, it's rubbish! Although seems like other teachers are getting better deals... Best part is, unlike most other jobs, there's no entitlement to accrued holidays to tack onto the start or end so unless you're really lucky to time it just right, you can be totally screwed.

6 weeks at 90%
12 weeks at 70%
21 weeks at SMP
Then 3 months unpaid

Big 5 Bank, 9 months full pay followed by 3 months just your allowances (and since I was a manager I got £5k car allowance )

If course, three year long maternity leaves in 4 years might be why they made me redundant.

DW works for an investment bank. If I remember correctly, it was 3 months full pay, then 3 months half pay, then 6 months unpaid. Though she only took six months.

A friend works for a bank mentioned previously, this year it's gone up to 19 weeks full pay.

6w full pay. TBF I never made it to 6 weeks anyway.